Trump threatens to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House
The president has already pursued legal action against other major news organisations, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the BBC.
President Donald Trump has announced the immediate ban of three prominent news organizations - CNN, MSNOW, and Politico - from the White House, deeming their reporting as "fake news", "fiction", and "lies". The precise nature of the ban remains unclear at this point. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump also hinted at the potential expansion of such restrictions to other media outlets.
This latest move represents a significant challenge to the First Amendment guarantees of freedom of the press in the United States and is another instance of Trump's administration tightening restrictions on press access. In the past, Trump has limited the size of the White House press pool, the select group of journalists who accompany him to restricted areas, and even barred the Associated Press from certain events due to his preferred use of "Gulf of America" over "Gulf of Mexico".
While it's uncommon for a president to ban an entire news organization from the White House, such actions have occurred before, like Nixon's restriction of The Washington Post during the Watergate scandal.
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